The hood isn't a place; it's people. Immoral and unintelligent people who predominantly migrated from places like Mississippi kept breeding with others of their ilk have which creating a war zone like Chicago. Racism may have exacerbated it. Their life, reproductive choices and family creation are what's poor and lower class. There are poor Whites in Appalachia who are economically worse than the Depression era US with poverty without the violent crime rate.
Lower IQs are concentrated in Southern states as well as poverty (for those who want to neg, do a websearch). People with higher intelligence tend get out of their circumstances or create opportunities in bad environments while those with lower intelligence live a perpetual existence. This is why smarter blacks tend to leave an area when it gets bad. It's the reason why struggling artists and gays can move into a depressed community and revitalize it in a generation (i.e. Dupont Circle DC, Hillcrest San Diego, Castro San Francisco) vs generational stereotypical nikka shyt witnessed in the poor South and so called inner cities.
Also wealth disparity and racism are not good explanations, as I assumed it before learning of this study:
Race, Wealth and Incarceration: Results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth . It included the following:
Between races, we find that at low levels of wealth both blacks and Hispanics still had a higher incarceration rate than whites. At higher levels of wealth at the baseline, although the black-white incarceration disparity was reduced for males, it was not eliminated.
We do observe that for Hispanic males starting with higher levels of wealth, odds of incarceration are similar to those of white males at comparable wealth levels. Why Hispanic males experience this convergence but not black males, we leave to further study.
i.e. the researchers were at a loss to explain the difference in incarceration rates between Black Americans and Latinos, given the same socioeconomic circumstances (in the system of White Supremacy I may add). Some liberals, like some on this forum who didn't read the study - only associated news articles, only took away this:
Poor white kids less likely to go to jail than rich black kids.
And even if you are going to torture someone, why be dumb enough to incriminate yourself? Perhaps direct that energy to the likes of Rahm Emanuel instead of some hick White boy.